It’s good to be Premier in the Land of Fairness.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States.
Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday, but would not reveal the location of the operation or how it would be paid for.
“He has gone to a renowned expert in the procedure that he needs to have done,” said Ms. Dunderdale, who will become acting premier while Mr. Williams is away for three to 12 weeks….Mr. Williams’ decision to leave Canada for the surgery has raised eyebrows over his apparent shunning of Canada’s health-care system.
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Oh, I’m sure there will be reasons given and excuses made. But when it came to nut-crunching time, when Premier Danny Williams actually had to decide whether or not he would wait in line for his surgery, whether or not he would trust his health, his heart to socialized medicine or to the world’s finest (relatively) free-market health care, whether or not he would “buy Canadian” or “buy American”, well, it really wasn’t even a choice was it?
Premier Danny Williams had the influence to get truly excellent heath care and used it.
And average everyday Canadians?
It’s the baby seal treatment for them.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams discusses his upcoming surgery as the recipient of the first horse to human transplant to take place later this month in Denmark. No special treatment or corruption or influence peddling was involved.
Does anyone think it will be different here in the U.S. with our Democrat betters if Obamacare passes?
It’s not like he would have to wait in line as if he were a common serf.
Don’t allow him to enter the US. Let him live or die by his own sword and rules he set up for the masses.